Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Don't be angry at your smile

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.

I stay dipped like the first day of school.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.